Plasmonic laser comprising: a metal nanostructure (RP) supporting a plurality of plasmon modes; and a gain medium (MG), providing optical gain at the frequency of oscillation of at least one of said plasmon modes, coupled in the optical near field with said nanostructure, characterized in that said gain medium is structured at the nanoscale so as to have a shape that closely follows the spatial intensity distribution of one of said plasmon modes, at the frequency at which said gain medium has an optical gain. Process for fabricating such a plasmonic laser.

Magnetoresistor integrated sensor for measuring voltage or current, and diagnostic system (WIPO link)

The invention relates to an integrated sensor, including terminals (1, 2) for connection to an electric generator, said terminals being connected to a metal measuring line (4, 5) in which a current proportional to the voltage or current of the generator to be measured flows, and magnetoresistors (31, 32, 33, 34). The metal measuring line includes elongate and parallel sections (4, 5) in which the current flows in opposite directions, said sections being connected to a portion (3) for closing the metal measuring line (3, 4, 5), which is arranged on a galvanic isolation layer (8) that is in turn arranged on an integrated circuit portion including the magnetoresistors (31, 32, 33, 34), each of which have a sensitive portion that is vertically adjacent to one of the elongate sections (4, 5). The sensor can be integrated into a diagnostic system.

The present invention relates to a method for preparing formamide compounds using carbon dioxide, and to the use of said method for manufacturing vitamins, pharmaceutical products, adhesives, acrylic fibres, synthetic leathers, pesticides and fertilisers. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing vitamins, pharmaceutical products, adhesives, acrylic fibres, synthetic leathers, pesticides and fertilisers which includes a step of preparing formamide compounds by the method according to the invention

Catanionic vesicles, method for the preparation thereof, and applications of same (WIPO link)

The invention relates to catanionic vesicles consisting of a mixture of oppositely charged surfactants carrying magnetic nanoparticles. The invention also relates to a method for preparing said vesicles, and to the uses thereof especially in the fields of pharmacy, cosmetics and magnetic bioimaging. The invention further relates to a method for guiding catanionic vesicles according to the invention under the influence of a magnetic field, and to a method for releasing solutes that are potentially present inside said vesicles.

The present invention relates to a device for synthesising a nanostructured composite material and to an associated method. The device includes a chamber (3) for synthesising said material, comprising a system (13) for depositing the matrix onto a target surface (15), a system (1, 4, 5, 9) for generating a supersonic jet of nanoparticles in a carrier gas, said system comprising an expansion chamber (1) and a buffer chamber (2) arranged between said system (1, 4, 5, 9) for generating said supersonic jet and the synthesis chamber (3), the prevailing pressure inside the buffer chamber (2) being lower than the prevailing pressure inside the expansion chamber (1), said supersonic jet of carrier gas driving the nanoparticles which are to thereby pass through the expansion chamber (1) and then through the buffer chamber (2), such that the nanoparticles pass through the synthesis chamber (3) onto the target surface (15).

Nanosensor for capturing charged molecules by using in situ stripping voltammetry (WIPO link)

The invention concerns a nanosensor for capturing charged molecules, the nanosensor comprising : - a functionalized radio grafted track-etched membrane (FRTEM) which contains polymer nanopores, - a first electrode arranged on a first side of the functionalized radio grafted track-etched membrane (FRTEM), the first electrode being designed to serve as a working electrode for an in situ stripping voltammetry technique, - a second electrode arranged on a second side of the functionalized radio grafted track-etched membrane (FRTEM), the second electrode being designed to serve as a counter electrode for an in situ stripping voltammetry technique.

The invention relates to a multifunctional detector for gaseous compounds, or mixtures of gaseous compounds, selected from NH2Cl, NHCl2, NCl3, total chlorine, NOx, where x=1 or 2, O3, and X2, where X=Cl, Br, or I, in a sample, said detector including a first sensor including an iodide and a reactive compound selected from starch, amylose, amylopectin, xyloglucan, xylan, chitosan, glycogen, polyvinyl alcohol, cellulose or a cellulose compound, α-cyclodextrin, theobromine, and polypropylene block polymers and polyethylene oxide block polymers, included in a block of sol-gel material that is absorbent in the UV spectrum but not in the visible spectrum. The invention also relates to the uses of said detector.